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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Kossacks Love Islamic Jihadists

Doodad

Yesterday there was another diary crying the blues about an Islamic Jihadist on a hunger strike by Troubadour, serial Israel hater. Today another serial Israel hating Kossack, Assaf, reports the news that the Jihadist has agreed to stop the hunger strike since Israel has agreed to release him by April. Assaf crows that:

Make no mistake: Khader's strike and his victory are an integral part of the Arab Spring.

Why do Kossacks celebrate these Islamic Jihadists? The answer may be found in Assaf's final remarks:

Will the West and Israel, especially the liberal-progressive sectors of those socieities, be ready to finally do right in Israel-Palestine? Or will they be shamefully dragged, kicking and screaming, like has happened to other Western-backed dictatorships in the region?

Obviously they see Israel as no better than, " other Western-backed dictatorships in the region." What fools they be.

Here's a little bit of truth about the poor innocent hunger striker:

Khader is an EVIL BASTARD. Anyone who stands with him is part of that evil. Soysauce calls him a HERO. Fire bad tree pretty calls it a victory for resistance. dKos is a shithole.

7 comments:

You hit the nail on the head with regard to the individuals named, and those who celebrate the "baker" while intentionally disregarding his avocation.

These folks will not say if they believe administrative detention is ever permitted, even though international law so permits. In other states, the matter is more about kidnapping and people going missing. Where is that outcry?

If this guy did not advocate violence, perhaps they would have a leg to stand on. Instead, they want to take away the state's ability to defend itself in a war of asymmetrical warfare where the enemy obeys no rules at all.

The brazen tactics of groups like Islamic Jihad apparently gives them no cause for concern. This is where the lack of care for human rights is exposed, not to mention the silence for far worse instances of human suffering occasioned by state and non-state actors. It shows that their advocacy is purely political and anti-Israel, anti-West.

Many progressives fall prey to this challenge to "do right." Thus, to dare speak about such matters, to poke open the holes, one earns a badge of scorn from many in the "progressive" wing, as if there is a need to prove bona fides, even though it separates the facade of human rights support from the core.

With regard to these diaries at DKos, I actually think there was a modicum of blowback directed at the diarists. I hope someone posted the video to show just who this person is.

I am unsure of the grounds of his detention, but believe this is exactly the type of "combatant" that permits a state to act according to law.

In 2005, Jelena Pejic, Legal Advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross and Head of the ICRC Project on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law, noted:

Internment/administrativedetention is a measure of control aimed at dealing with persons who pose a realthreat to State security, currently or in the future, in situations of armedconflict, or to State security or public order in non-conflict situations; itis not a measure that is meant to replace criminal proceedings.

More specifically:

[R]ecourse to these measuresmay be had only if the security of the State makes it “absolutely necessary”(GC IV, Article 42) or for “imperative reasons of security” (GC IV, Article78). The exceptional nature of internment lies in the fact that it allows thedetaining authority to deprive persons of liberty who are not subject to criminalprocess, but are nevertheless considered to represent a real threat to its securityin the present or in the future. As the Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Conventionexplains, “It did not seem possible to define the expression ‘security of theState’ in a more concrete fashion. It is thus left very largely to Governments todecide the measure of activity prejudicial to the internal or external securityof the State which justifi es internment or assigned residence.”

At least to me, the cries of pain for this innocent "baker" fall on deaf ears.

So much care for the "baker" that I suspect his supporters will neglect to see that a trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity.

Just to confirm my suspicions, I did a search there yesterday on Khader Adnan and Hamza Kashgari, going back to February 1. Imagine my 'surprise' (shocked!) to find that those at that place who claim to care about a "just" Middle East have written precisely nothing on Hamza Kashgari. I wonder why that is?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" is the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to? How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?